Jahrell
Jahrell was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,782 among boys’ names; 215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahrell?
#12,782 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahrell fell from #11,247 in 2015 to #12,782 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.1 to 2.9 per million.
12 babies in 2002, the peak
Jahrell peaked in 2002, when 12 boys were given it, #5,860 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,782 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,228 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,851 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,927 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,086 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,188 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,007 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,247 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,835 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,301 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,405 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,272 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,936 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,331 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,229 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,121 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,605 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,196 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,146 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,860 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,644 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,559 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,793 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,917 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,867 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,215 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,394 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,127 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,851 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahrell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahrell, and how old are they?
An estimated 211 Americans named Jahrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 157 people named Jahrell (1 woman or girl, 156 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Jahrell?
Jahrell is a less common spelling of Jarrell: SSA has recorded 215 Jahrell and 4,245 Jarrell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,712 babies since 1880, Jahrell is the fifth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 50 babies (10%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jahrell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jahrell and names like it
- Compare Jahrell and JarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahrell peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahrell since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jahrell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahrell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.